Commodity storage & transfer
Electricity
Ergonomics
- Back injury
- Lifting
- Repetitive trauma
Farm machinery
- Balers
- Chain saws
- Combines
- Power take-off (PTO)
- Roll-over protection
- Safety guards
- Tractors
Fire
Fuel storage (leaks and fires)
Illumination (poor lighting)
Lightning (shock and fire)
Liquefied Propane [LP] gas
Liquefied anhydrous ammonia
Livestock handling injuries
Physical/environmental hazards
- Noise
- Thermal (heat and cold)
- Ultraviolet (sun light)
- Vibration
- Psychological stress
- Sanitation (field)
- Transportation (on & off road)
- Welding
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Asphyxiation/suffocation
- Confined space
- Entrapment (see commodity s.&t.)
- Fumigation
- Carbon Monoxide (combustion)
- Silo gases (NO2 and CO2)
Detergents
Diesel exhaust
Disinfectants including
- Chlorine
- Quaternary ammonia compounds
- Organic iodides
- Cresol-based compounds
- Formaldehyde emitters
Dusts (inorganic aerosols)
Hydrogen sulfide (a key manure gas)
Microbiologic organisms
- Infectious microbes
- Mold spores (mycotoxins)
- Noninfectious bioaerosols
- Parasites
Nitrogen dioxide (silos & welding)
Organic dusts - e.g.
- Cotton dust
- Endotoxin (on many organic d.)
- Grain dust
- Sugar cane (bagassosis)
- Wood dust
Pesticides (including application and harvest activities) |
Arthritis
Dermatoses - caused by
- Heat
- Irritant chemicals
- Infectious microbes
- Insects
- Sensitizing chemicals
- Sunlight
Noise Induced Hearing Loss
Immunologic diseases
- Allergic rhinitis
- Asthma
- Dermatoses
Noninfectious diseases
- Cancer (is actually a low risk)
- Hypertension and heart
- Respiratory diseases
- Asthma (also immunologic dis.)
- Bagassosis (from sugar cane)
- Bronchitis
- Byssinosis (from cotton dust)
- Farmer's Lung (see also HP below)
- Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
- Organic dust toxic syndrome
(ODTS)
- Pneumoconiosis (e.g. silicosis)
- Silo filler's disease (see also NO2)
Organophosphate poisoning and sequelae
Silo unloader's disease
Zoonotic diseases |
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